Fabric Weaving Pillow

 A couple of posts back I showed some fabric weaving

I had tried.

It was for a pillow for my son in law.

Well, I learned a valuable lesson in my first attempt at

fabric weaving.

When pressing the woven piece to the interfacing under it,

do not iron it.... press it!

Once it was all ironed, the piece was distorted.

As I was ironing, I didn't realize that I was pushing

the strips and causing distortion.

The end result was off square by almost 2" in spots...

unacceptable to use for a pillow.

But Wait!

I looked at the piece and realized that the middle was

not distorted.  I could cut the middle out of the piece

and add borders and salvage some of the weaving.

Here is the result:

 

 

 

I had quilted the piece with a big spiral already,

so I quilted borders with some grid quilting

and added them with a "quilt as you go" technique.

 

The backing was added and then I bound the pillow.

 

 

 

These colors are more true and you can see the weaving better

in this photo.

 

It's a big pillow...24" square.  They like big pillows

at my daughter's house.

 

This one is finished and I've started the second one.

It is not being made with fabric weaving!

 That one will be shown soon.

 

 

Happy Quilting!